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MongoDB 6.0

We're excited about MongoDB 6.0 and we just made it available to our customers, yay 🎉 The latest version brings many new features and optimizations. Your existing deployments will continue running the current version so that we don't break your app. Feel free to reach out to our support if

Node.js 17.0.0 is available

Node.js 17.0.0 is available

Node.js has matured to 17.x version just recently. This change brings many improvements but the most notable one is an upgrade to OpenSSL 3.0. While the APIs of OpenSSL 3.0 should be mostly compatible with the older OpenSSL 1.1.1 version, the Node.js team

Deploy using GitHub Actions

Deploy using GitHub Actions

We have been asked multiple times in the past if deployment from a GitHub repository is supported on EvenNode. The short answer is yes 😊 You could have either used git deployment [https://www.evennode.com/docs/git-deployment] to deploy your GitHub project or you could have set up GitHub Actions

Deno support on EvenNode

After a couple months of testing Deno internally we have enabled support for Deno since the last week for all our customers. We have been very pleased with Deno's performance and support and we feel it's a great step forward for our community. Deno 1.0 was released on May

New region in Asia Pacific - Singapore

New region in Asia Pacific - Singapore

After months of internal testing with selected customers we're thrilled to announce immediate availability of a new region Asia Pacific - Singapore. Asia Pacific was an expected addition to our locations list to better serve customers in this region. EvenNode supports three regions at the moment which cover the needs

2-step verification for accounts

2-step verification for accounts

We have rolled out another update of our web dashboard with one new big feature. This version includes: * Support for 2-step verification using a mobile authenticator app such as Google Authenticator * Several bug fixes and performance improvements 2-step verification has been a long requested feature which improves security of your

Response time metrics

Response time metrics

We've just launched a brand new feature on EvenNode. It helps you track how fast your app responds to requests. Response time metric tracks the time it took your app to process a request and return a response. We provide you with three important metrics which help you determine how

HTTP/2 support

Another great feature has landed on EvenNode - HTTP/2 support. As requested by our community we've deployed support for HTTP/2 protocol to all our load balancers so that your users can load pages over secure connection faster than with HTTPS. There are no changes required to your application.

MongoDB 4.0 available

MongoDB 4.0 available

MongoDB version 4.0 is here. It brings plenty of improvements and new features and we have just enabled it by default for all new apps deployed on EvenNode. If your app runs on an older version of MongoDB and you'd like to update to the latest one, feel free

Live logs!

Finally here – we have introduced live logs to our web dashboard. From now on you can stream logs from your app in real-time. As your app writes to stdout/stderr (for example through console.log()), logs automatically appear in your app's logs in the web dashboard. No more refreshing the

MongoDB 3.6 available

MongoDB 3.6 available

A new version of MongoDB has been released this year in December. MongoDB 3.6 brings a lot of improvements. As usual, full changelog is available in MongoDB documentation [https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/release-notes/3.6/]. The new version is automatically enabled for all new apps deployed on EvenNode.

Details about outage from Nov 9, 2017

Details about outage from Nov 9, 2017

We'd like to share a couple words with you regarding outage we have experienced on November 9. The outage has started 7:15am CET and lasted until around 8pm CET time. It has affected major data centers of one of the biggest server hosting providers in Europe. Hundreds of thousands

MongoDB 3.4 support

MongoDB 3.4 support

MongoDB version 3.4 has been available since December 2016. We have enabled it by default for all new customers on EvenNode. As you're used to from the past, we provide free access to a MongoDB database for every application. You can now enjoy new features such as new aggregation

30-day free trials

30-day free trials

We have just bumped our free trials to 30 days! We hope you're going to enjoy the prolonged free period to test drive your apps before going live with our platform. Feel free to contact our support if you need any help with setting things up.

Free SSL certificates for all paid plans

Free SSL certificates for all paid plans

We are happy to announce immediate availability of SSL certificates for all paid plans. From today you can deploy a free SSL certificate for your apps through a simple experience via our web dashboard [https://admin.evennode.com/] or you can easily deploy your own SSL certificate if you already

Python now available!

Python now available!

Python is now supported on EvenNode. The team has been working hard to bring you support of other programming languages and we're starting with Python. All versions of Python are available - 2.7, 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5. The build process looks for requirements.txt file to

New stack deployed

New stack deployed

New stack is now deployed to our infrastructure and brings many performance improvements. We've been working hard for the last couple of months to bring it to you and we are happy to announce general availability for all our customers. What's new * [new] Dedicated machines for builds – brings faster build

MongoDB 3.2 support

We have just rolled out support for MongoDB 3.2 which provides many new features such as new storage engines, partial indexes, readConcern option which allows clients to choose a level of isolation for their reads and many others. Our deployment consists of three member replica set – primary, secondary and

Support for workers and processes

Last week we have deployed a big update which adds support for workers and processes. You can now define your own processes to be launched when your app starts such as workers or additional app instances. This change enables you to run cron jobs and workers in a separate process

Let's Encrypt SSL certificates support

We're happy to announce support for Let's Encrypt [https://letsencrypt.org/] SSL certificates. Let's Encrypt provides free SSL certificates which can be deployed for all your custom domains. The certificates are issued for 90 days and are renewed automatically before expiration. All customers with plans supporting SSL certificates can now

Custom command to run your app

We've been listening! There has been a considerable amount of requests in the recent past asking for a custom command to be used when your app is launched. As of yesterday, this feature is finally available to everyone. Just go to the settings of your app, specify any command you

Faster log viewing

Some of you may have noticed longer load times when viewing app logs through our web console [https://admin.evennode.com/]. This happened from time to time and we were not happy with the situation. I'm happy to say we managed to solve the issue by switching tools which helped

New location - United States, Iowa

We're very happy to announce that we have opened a new location to host your apps. Initially our servers were located in Europe, Ireland but as we grew more and more customers started requesting a location closer to their customers in US. We have decided to work with Google Cloud

Getting started

We been getting a lot of questions from you such as how does your architecture look like or what's your development workflow, so we decided that we'd like to share with you some insights. In the following weeks I'll publish a couple of articles about how our systems are designed,